In The Beginning Was The Plot.....And The Plot Thickened! Adventures on a Lancashire Allotment & Miscellaneous Musings.

09 March 2007

Bring The Sun To Me

Our Turkish friend Kamal asked us to team up with Nazli to play for an international society concert up at the Uni. Kamal plays the Baglama, a seven stringed instrument that looks for all the world like a big gourd with a long neck.

It was difficult at first for us to get our heads round the style of the Turkish rhythms and melodies but we got there in the end and managed to put four songs together.

There is nothing understated about the Turkish style; it is all about passion and emotional intensity, as Kamal says to us 'you have to feel it in your heart.' Here is one of the songs we performed called Günes topla benim içinwhich means 'bring the sun to me'.

Twilight wind climb the mountainsBring the sun to meLet everyone know everywhereBring the sun to me

From the hopesFrom the black eyebrowsFrom the knife bruises collect the sunBring the sun to me

From the eye of my loverFrom the trace of the birds in the skyFrom the sky at nightDarling, collect and bring the sun to me.

I'm happy to go along with that as spring is coming on although I suspect our lovestruck young Turk has it in mind to find light, love and prosperity in the dark eyebrows of beautiful young women. Well, looking at Nazli, who could blame him.... really?

Thanks for the parsnip advice. To continue with the experimental theme in the garden, I'll let some of the parsnips continue growing and watch them flower. Then early next year, I'll get them off to a proper start.

What a lovely song - that complete merging of love of nature and love of someone. Even with just the words it comes across quite strongly. I would have loved to have been there. And yes, it does help that Nazli is quite duskily beautiful!

Let us know if you do it again and I'll try to clear the decks to see you all.

Yes OK....I will post it again to a site with a little more longevity but not till I get back to work. I'm getting very peed off with blogger not letting me in from home to post stuff. The CD should be done in a week or two.